Moreover, Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor in the University of South Carolina who focuses on autonomous driving, said Tesla collects real-time crash data that other automakers don’t and, as a result, probably reports a “far greater proportion of their incidents” than its rivals.

Reuters reported Friday that members of Trump’s transition team are recommending that he eliminate the car crash reporting requirement. Reuters is basing its reporting on a document that showed that the recommendation to kill the crash reporting rule came from “a transition team tasked with producing a 100-day strategy for automotive policy.